BACA: a mitochondrial genome retriever, organizer and visualizer

Retrieving and organizing data from complete genomes is a time-consuming task, even more so if the interest lies only in part of the genome (for nongenomic analysis). Furthermore, when comparing several genomes or genes, data retrieval has to be repeated multiple times. We present baca, a software for retrieving, organizing and visualizing multiple mitochondrial genomes. baca takes a GenBank query, retrieves all related genomes and generates multiple fasta files organized both by genomes and genes. A web-based user interface and an interactive graphical map of all genomes with all genes are also provided. The program is available from http://cibio.up.pt/software/baca.